Understanding Justification, Sanctification, and Glorification || An RTTB Topical Study

Ever mix up what God declares, what we practice, and what we’re promised? We walk through the Bible’s three-part map of the Christian life—justification, sanctification, and glorification—with clear definitions, vivid analogies, and a stack of Scripture you can mark up and revisit. You’ll hear why no amount of future good deeds can pay for past sin, how faith unites us to Christ’s righteousness, and why justification is a one-time verdict from God that secures real assurance.

From there, we shift to growth. Sanctification isn’t a ladder to earn acceptance; it’s the Spirit-led process of becoming more like Jesus. We talk about what “set apart” looks like in ordinary days: learning God’s ways, resisting old patterns, forming new habits, and trusting the Holy Spirit’s quiet conviction. You’ll see why the Corinthians could be “sanctified” and still need correction, and how that tension makes sense of uneven progress without surrendering the call to holiness.

Finally, we lift our eyes to glorification. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 15, Philippians 3, and Revelation 21–22, we unpack the hope of resurrection bodies, a world made new, and tears wiped away. Glorification is not ethereal; it’s embodied, joyful, and just. We explore the promise that the saints will be raised imperishable and share in Christ’s glory, and how that future anchors courage, endurance, and meaningful work today.

If you’re hungry for gospel clarity and practical wisdom, this conversation will steady your heart and sharpen your steps. Listen, share with a friend who needs assurance, and leave a review to help others find the show.

Chapters

• 0:16 Setting The Stage: Three Big Words
• 1:38 Why Mixing Terms Misleads
• 2:47 Justification Defined And Defended
• 6:52 Faith Not Law: Paul’s Case
• 12:23 One-Time Act And Security
• 18:57 Protestant-Catholic Divide On Justification
• 23:38 Sanctification: Set Apart To Grow
• 27:51 The Spirit’s Role In Our Growth
• 33:43 Glorification: Bodies Raised, Hope Realized
• 41:04 Final Summary And Invitation

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:16

Today on Reasoning Through the Bible, we're going to do a special topic. We're going to delve into some theological questions. I think you'll find this quite interesting. Today we're going to explore three theological ideas: justification, sanctification, and glorification. And God's Word spends a good bit of time talking about each of these, so therefore we should as well. And if we get them confused or mixed up, then we can end up in a world of trouble around Bible teaching. You can get into some really bad directions in your teachings if you don't understand the distinctions between these three terms. One way to remember these in summary is that justification is how we are made right before God. Sanctification is how we are taught to live increasingly holy lives. And glorification happens in the millennium and the final state when we are given honor that we should as Christians. Another way to think of it is justification delivers us from the penalty of sin. Sanctification delivers us from the power of sin. And glorification delivers us from the presence of sin. We're going to go through each of these. I think you'll find this quite interesting. And Steve, any comments about this? These are quite important topics.

SPEAKER_00: 1:39

Yeah, Glenn, one of the reasons why I think it's good for us to go through this is I think that in some cases, some people, some teaching and some doctrines have conflated a little bit between sanctification and the justification portion of it. Glorification, I think pretty much everybody agrees what that is. And I would like to, as we go through this, to give a little bit of clarity to that, because I think if we get a little bit of it mixed up of the sanctification over into the justification part, we end up sometimes thinking that we have to do things in order to justify ourselves in front of God. And those things which we should be doing are really things that are separating us from this world in that sanctification part that we're going to talk about. So that's one of the things as we go through here is to make that distinction between justification and sanctification.

SPEAKER_01: 2:38

And we'll go through justification first. It's arguably the most important, but at least most discussed, I guess would be more proper. The Greek word dicaios is a legal term that means to show justice, to do justice, to vindicate, to cause someone to be released from legal charges and to show a person to be morally right. If someone were charged with a crime and appeared before a judge, the judge would either declare them guilty or declare them justified before the law. If the judge declares them justified, the person would be freed from the crime and the punishment of the crime. In a salvation sense, justification is the word that is used to show that God has determined a person no longer guilty of sin and no longer under the penalty of that sin. Let's go ahead and look at some scripture to help us determine exactly what it's saying. I'm going to read Galatians 2.16, that actually mentions justification three times in one verse, because the book of Galatians is primarily interested with how we are made right before God. Galatians 2.16 says, quote, know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because observing the law, no one will be justified. So it introduces this term justification and mentions it three times. A person who is justified is no longer guilty before God. He is released or vindicated from any claims. Justification in the Bible means officially and legally saved from the penalty of sin. So a person, of course, in life starts out as a sinner and guilty of sin, legally deserving punishment. A sinner is charged with a crime of disobeying God and is in need of justification. A sinner can have the sin removed when they're justified. The Bible talks a lot about how we are justified by faith in Jesus. So, Steve, how important is this concept of being justified before God?

SPEAKER_00: 5:09

Well, another term that's used in this justification portion is righteousness. How can we be declared righteous before a righteous God? And of course, that's done through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and through his death, burial, and resurrection. But it relates to a basic concept of conversion. Abraham believed in God and it was reckoned to him or counted to him as righteous. Well, who did the reckoning or counting? It was God that did that. It was declared to him as being righteous. So it's a declaration act by God, which he establishes a person as righteous. So that means the right and true standing or relationship with God. So as we continue to go through the definition and look at justification, it's one key thing to look at that once we're declared righteous, it's a done deal. And it's something that scripture tells us has been done. God looks at it and thinks of it as being something in the past, and we have that righteous or just standing before God.

SPEAKER_01: 6:18

Let's go ahead and go through some Bible passages that'll help us to determine what the scripture actually teaches about justification. Acts 13, 39 says, quote, by him, this is talking about Christ, by him, everyone who believes is justified. It says there categorically, everyone who believes is justified. And the justification is determined by God. We don't work our way and we make the determination of whether we're justified or not. No, it is God that determines whether or not we're justified. And Acts 13, 39 says, everyone who believes is justified. Romans 3.20 says, quote, by the deeds of the law, no flesh will be justified. So we can't be justified by obeying his commands, doing good works, or acting morally. The reason is because we've already disobeyed. The Mosaic law is not just a sacrificial system, but all the moral parts of the law as well. If you violate a law, let's say their criminal robs a bank, appears before a judge, and the criminal says, Well, judge, I promise from now on I'm gonna be good and I'll go pick up trash on the side of the road and I'll uh help old ladies across the street and I'll say nice things to people from now on. Well, the judge is gonna say, Well, all that's nice, but what about this bank robbery that already happened? Somebody's gotta pay the price for that. Romans 3.20, by the deeds of the law, no flesh will be justified. Steve, why is it that we can't be justified by keeping the Mosaic law or any moral code for that matter?

SPEAKER_00: 8:02

Well, because we cannot keep any of those codes or the Mosaic law in its entirety. That was one of the things that Jesus made clear as he was here during his ministry. If we break one, then we've broken all of the law. Somebody trying to keep the law of Moses, all 613 of those commands, plus the rules that the Pharisees and the other parts of the leadership added to it in order to make sure that people kept those 613 rules or laws. If you break one of them, then you have to start all over again. So it's real obvious that you're not going to be able to continue to keep all of those laws. And Jesus even raised the bar when he was here in his Sermon on the Mount, he said, You've heard that you shouldn't murder anyone. But I say if you have hatred in your heart for someone, then you've already committed murder. And there were other ones that he expanded on. Obviously, his point was that you're not going to be able to keep all of those laws. And if you can't keep all of those laws and statutes, then at some point you have a penalty and a price, and there's nothing that we can do to pay the price for breaking those laws.

SPEAKER_01: 9:20

More Bible passages that'll help us get some nuance to this term justification. Romans 3 24 says, quote, being justified is a gift by his grace, unquote. So we're justified because God gives us the gift of his grace. He is gracious enough to provide a means for our justification. God is therefore the only one who can declare us justified or not. Romans 8 30, quote, these whom he called, he also justified. Romans 4, 5. To the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness. So again, justification happens because of belief, not because of doing righteous work. God justifies the ungodly people by crediting faith as righteousness. Why? Well, because it's a love relationship and not an earned work relationship. We can't even live up to the standards that we hold ourselves to, let alone God's standards. Therefore, he graciously provides a way that says, if you'll just take Jesus' payment for your sin, then I'll consider you justified. And we will have a spiritual marriage that is a love relationship. The clear message is that righteousness is not earned as actual righteousness, but credited to us through faith. Colossians 1.20, quote, through Jesus to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross. Justification is God taking action to reconcile sinful people to himself. And in the book of Galatians, we've already mentioned that most of the book, in fact, the main thrust of the purpose for the book of Galatians is saying that we are justified by faith. Paul says several times that we're justified by faith, not by works. Chapter three of Galatians, Paul has very strong, actually very severe language supporting salvation by faith, and repeated the same idea over and over, mentioning faith, belief, and promises over a two dozen times. We would just refer you to our teaching on Galatians, where we went through that in detail. Paul made it very clear in Galatians that justification is by faith. Paul says that if you think you're justified by doing works, then you're not justified by grace. So, Steve, what other conclusions can we come to about this idea of being justified before God and being justified by faith?

SPEAKER_00: 12:05

The basic conclusion, I think, with the justification is that it's a one-time act. It's a one-time declaration that's done by God. We are declared justified. We are declared righteous before Him. It's something that He does based on our belief in Jesus Christ. If we believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths that Jesus Christ is Lord, we shall be saved. Whenever we do that and we're sincere in doing that, then we're declared righteous. We are justified, and it's a one-time act. There's nothing to do after that point in order to have this state of righteousness before God or justification. You mentioned Galatians. We've also gone through Colossians, and Colossians, I think, makes it very clear that there's not anything else that we need to do in order to have a right standing before God. It says that we've been transferred from darkness over into light. It also says that we've been declared complete in front of God through Jesus Christ, that we've been qualified. There's so much characteristics and attributes that we get whenever we are justified and declared righteous before God. So a key takeaway from this portion of justification is that it's a one-time act done by God that declares us justified and righteous before God. We no longer have any type of a penalty as far as a payment for our sin. Jesus Christ has done that and paid for it himself.

SPEAKER_01: 13:45

And that's really the key theological conclusion about justification is that no amount of future good works can take away the need for punishment for past sins. We can't work off our debt by doing good deeds in the future because the past sins have to be paid for. Therefore, many times the Bible makes it very clear that we cannot justify ourselves before God. Once we sin, then we can't fix it. Rather, God must do something to declare us justified. All who truly believe in Jesus are declared justified by God. Justification happens prior to and apart from actual righteousness on our part. When we're justified, we are reconciled and have peace with God. Romans 4, 5 says, quote, to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness. So the primary passages that deal with how we are made right before God, how we are justified, is Romans chapter 4 and 5 and the book of Galatians, specifically chapters 2 and parts of three. They make it very clear over and over again that we are justified not by our own efforts, but by faith. If we're justified by faith, we can't lose justification nor regain it again by human effort. Some teach a false idea, it's a very false idea, that people are saved initially by faith, but when they sin, they become condemned again and then must work to regain the justification. God says it is foolish to teach that we can be perfected through human effort. Galatians 3:3, quote, are you so foolish, having begun by the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? So justification is on all who believe, not merely those who believe and live a righteous life. Therefore, justification is by faith alone. We are saved by grace through faith, it says in Ephesians 2. The Bible repeatedly speaks of Christians being saved through faith, is the term it uses. Therefore, it is the faith that is the means by which we are saved, not the results of our salvation.

SPEAKER_00: 16:17

Another thing, Glenn, thinking about it as you're going through that last part, is that the justification is done by God. The declaration of being justified or righteous before God is not done by any type of a human agent or human organization. So our dependency on being justified before God is not dependent on some human person or organization declaring us that we're justified. Because all humans want to think that they have to add certain things. And whenever you add the human element of a person or organization, usually with that, they have a listing of here's certain things that you have to do in order to have a right standing with the organization or the church that you're belong to. And if you have a right standing with the church, then therefore you'll have a right standing with God. And that's not that's not biblical. Let's say it that way. God is the one that gives the declaration of righteousness and justification. We should look to a biblical understanding of our justification and also know and come to within ourselves of knowing that it's God that gives us the justification. It doesn't come from any type of man, person, or a man-made organization.

SPEAKER_01: 17:41

And in answering this question, how we are made right before God, how we are justified before God, theologians over the centuries wrestled with this concept. I feel like we have to at least touch on a major disagreement that happened in the past. In the 1500s, was what is called the Protestant Reformation. One of the primary issues there was how we are justified. The Protestants held to a system and disagreed with the Roman Catholics, and the churches separated over justification primarily. There were other issues also. But Protestants in the Reformation held to what's called forensic justification, which just means a legal declaration, as we've been explaining here. While the Roman Catholics held that people have to actually be righteous in order to be right before God, the Catholics would hold you have to actually do righteous deeds before you can actually appear before God in heaven. Whereas the Protestants held to this legal declaration, forensic justification, that would say that God declares us righteous because of our faith. Arguments were given on both sides. We would fall, of course, to the Protestant justification by faith alone. I would refer you to our teachings on Galatians, but Galatians 2.16 three times says that we're justified by faith, by belief. If God would have intended this to mean that we are justified by faith plus anything else, such as good works or behavior, it would have been there. It would have been in the primary passages that deal with justification, namely Romans 4 and 5 and in Galatians. But the absence of any additions in those passages leave us on very solid ground that we are saved by faith and faith alone. Paul was too careful, too thorough, and felt this too important to have left out anything essential to justification. If he would have intended there to be works mixed in with being made right before God, he would have put it in Romans 4 and 5 and in Galatians. We have to bring in a lot of outside baggage into those passages to hold to an actual justification. That's why we would hold to the forensic justification. We are declared righteous before God. And actually, in Galatians, if you look at the passages there, Galatians 2.16, there's no definite article before the word law, so that it literally says, faith in Christ and not by works of law. So it's not just talking about the Mosaic law, it's talking about any moral commands of obedience. We know that this passage, justification by faith, equals righteousness before God because of Galatians 2.21, which says, quote, if righteousness comes through law, then Christ died needlessly. He's saying that if we get righteousness by obeying God's commands, doing good works, obeying God, or by cooperating with God, or by doing good things, then Christ did not have to die. Again, if we are to be justified before God by actual righteousness of our own, these passages would have said so, but they don't. Steve, I just feel that's a very critical thing. I think that the New Testament bears that out. One last thing on justification is what we would call eternal security. Once we are justified, our justification is not lost to sin. Jesus said, quote, I give eternal life to them and they will never perish, John 10, 28. And 1 John 5 teaches that we know that we have eternal life. So once we are justified by faith, just like Abraham was, then we are declared righteous before God. That is justification.

SPEAKER_00: 21:47

As a final comment on that, Glenn, is to again give this concept that we've been talking about, that if there's no works that we can do in order to be justified before God, that it's our expressed faith, belief, and trust in Jesus Christ, and it's a declaration of righteousness given by God, a one-time act, then it's also a logical conclusion on the other side that there's nothing that we can do from a work standpoint to undeclare ourselves as being righteous or undeclare ourselves as being justified. That's what we've been saying. It's a one-time act by God Himself. We didn't work our way into it, therefore, we can't work our way out of it. We'll discuss a little bit more some of the problems and issues that I think that come up that people put over into this sanctification area that they try and move that into the justification area. Because in sanctification, yes, we are doing things to become more Christ-like there, but it has nothing to do with God's declaration of righteousness and justification before Him.

SPEAKER_01: 23:01

Next in our list of three terms is the word sanctification or sanctify. That word means to set apart, and more specifically, to be set apart for a holy purpose. The word is similar to the word consecrate. Often when churches build a new building, they will have a consecration ceremony to dedicate the building for God's use and his glory. Inanimate things in the temple in the Old Testament were sanctified, which means they were to only be used in the temple ceremonies. In and of themselves, they were just utensils and pots and pans. But because they were set apart to only be used in God's sacrificial system, then they were sanctified. That's what made them holy and separate. The actual mountain of Mount Sinai was sanctified at the coming of the law because the people were not allowed to come upon it. It was set apart. Before Moses met with God to get the Ten Commandments, God tells Moses to sanctify the people for two days. It just meant to set them apart so that they're not doing common things. The people were to be sanctified before God appeared. Sanctification just means to set apart from that which is unholy. Therefore, Christians are to be set apart from unholy things so that we are dedicated to the holy things of God. Steve, how important is sanctification?

SPEAKER_00: 24:36

I think that it's a key part of our spiritual lives, that process of becoming more Christ-like. Because if we're not doing that, if we're not becoming more Christ-like, then we're missing out on a portion of our spiritual life and getting to know God, who He is, and working up that relationship with Him. So this whole process of sanctification is one of becoming more Christ-like. We are set apart, we become sanctified from a definitive standpoint in a way, but we also are working through becoming more Christ-like, as Paul likes to put it. What does that look like? It looks like learning more about God, learning more about his ways, learning more about the will that he has for our lives. Those are the things that have to do with this sanctification and setting ourselves apart from the world. We've been justified, one time act. Now we are moving into an area where we are becoming more separated from the world. The justification happens with our spirit. The sanctification is more to do with not just our spirit of becoming more Christ-like and knowing who God is, but it's also the process of fighting our body to become separated from this world. Paul says, I do the things I don't want to do, and I don't do the things I do want to do. That I think is a good definition of the battle that goes between the spirit and the body. I think that's also a good definition of the sanctification process, the process that we're involved with to become separated from this world and to be a holy vessel, we can put it that way, also to be used by God. So it's a process. And I think it's a key thing to recognize that as we continue to talk about this area of sanctification.

SPEAKER_01: 26:35

Sanctification does not mean that we've lived a sinless life up to this point in time, nor does it mean that we are sinless right now, that we have reached sinless perfection. And I would point to the book of First Corinthians, the second verse in the entire book, Paul is just in his introduction, and Paul writes to the church at Corinth in 1 Corinthians 1 2, he says, quote, who have been sanctified in the Lord Jesus. So he writes to this church who has been sanctified in Christ. But if you look at the book of 1 Corinthians, most of the book is this long series of corrections for sins and problems they have. Some of it was just downright sin. They hit a lot of fleshly things that had happened. Yet when he writes to them, the second verse in the book is, I'm writing to this church at Corinth who's been sanctified. So they have been set apart. So sanctification is a process of becoming more holy. Justification and sanctification are really works of God. Justification has to be declared by God. And sanctification, it's not something we can just have a whole lot of human effort and do simply because, as humans, we're so flawed with our desires. Sanctification means we have to allow God's Holy Spirit to lead us. And God has to teach us through the Holy Spirit to avoid things and to gravitate towards holy things. We have to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, but without that, we couldn't sanctify ourselves. Justification is instantaneous. Sanctification is a process where we have to learn more of God's ways. We have to yield to the still small voice of the Holy Spirit, where he leads us into pathways that are increasingly holy. Sanctification is in Christ, not just through human effort. Acts 13, 2, quote, the Holy Spirit said, this is when Paul and Barnabas were set apart. He says, the Holy Spirit said, set apart for me, Barnabas and Saul for the work which I have called for them. So the Holy Spirit was setting them apart for a good work. Romans 1:1, Paul says that he is a bondservant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God. The apostle Paul was set apart for a particular role in the church. We already mentioned 1 Corinthians 1.2 speaks of all Christians saying we are sanctified in the Lord Jesus, called to be saints. 1 Corinthians 6 11 speaks of Christians as formerly being sinners, but now are sanctified, washed, and justified. 1 Thessalonians 4.3 says, it is God's will that we have, quote, sanctification, that is, you abstain from sexual immorality. So sanctification is this process where God has to work on us. Jesus talked about him pruning things out of our lives. Those he loves, he prunes so that we can bear more fruit. So sanctification is this gradual process where we become increasingly more Christ like. He has to teach us things through experiences, prick our conscience, and lead us towards some things and away from others. Justification is instantaneous at the point of salvation. Sanctification takes a little while. And Steve, God is still working on me to help me be more sanctified. And I pray that people would have patience.

SPEAKER_00: 30:21

That's a good point that you have made, Glenn, and that through God's power and strength of the Holy Spirit, that's how we can go through this process of sanctification. Without the Holy Spirit in us, it would be really, I think, nearly impossible to do that because the Holy Spirit is the one that tells us you're not on the right path, you're not going in the right direction. And I'm speaking on that from experience. My personal testimony is I came to salvation and belief in Jesus Christ at the age of eight. But as much as I tried to live a good life as a boy and be obedient to my parents, I still lied to them from time to time. I still went places where I wasn't supposed to go and play. And as I entered into my teenage years and my 20s, I was not living a, you know, Christian life of going to church and learning more about God and those types of things. But all through that time, the Holy Spirit was there telling me what you're doing, Steve, is not right. And you need to get back into a relationship with Jesus Christ. And that happened in my early 30s. Since then, I have built my relationship up with Jesus Christ. So we can't do it without the Holy Spirit. And that is when we're given the Holy Spirit, is at the time that we're declared righteous in the justification, we receive the Holy Spirit. Jesus told the disciples when they were questioning him, going, he says, Don't worry, I'm not going to leave you alone. I'm going to send one that's going to come after me. In the Greek, it's paraclete. It means someone that's going to come alongside of you and that's going to help you. And then later at another point, Jesus said, I must go so that the Spirit might be sent to you. So this process of sanctification is one that is empowered by the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. And it is through the Holy Spirit that we have the enablement and the power and the ability to be able to learn more about God and Jesus Christ, but also to be able to stay away from the things of the world and resist the temptation of the world that we have here on a daily basis. So I think this is a very important part of sanctification that you've pointed out, Glenn, is the reception of the Holy Spirit. We wouldn't be able to do it on our own without the Holy Spirit.

SPEAKER_01: 32:57

The first area was justification, and that is a declaration by God at one point in time upon our faith and trust in Christ. We then enter the period of sanctification, which is a long process of becoming more and more set apart for God's use. The final state is glorification. Glorification is where we will be exalted. Romans 8:30 says, quote, those he justified, he also glorified. So in the end, we will be glorified. Our physical bodies will be glorified when we are resurrected from the dust of the earth and glorified to be like Jesus' resurrected body. Philippians 3.21 says, quote, the Lord Jesus Christ will transform the body of our lowly state into conformity with his glorious body, unquote. In 1 Corinthians 15, starting in verse 42, it has a long section that where it talks about our physical bodies being raised to a glorified state. It says in there that our physical body dies perishable and it is raised imperishable, dies in dishonor, raised in glory, dies in weakness, raised in power, dies natural, raised spiritual. And in this sense, the spiritual there is physical as well, simply because in the same book, 1 Corinthians, it talks about the manna in the wandering in the wilderness years being spiritual food. So our bodies will be raised imperishable, glorious, in power, and a spiritual body that is like Christ. That's our glorified state. We're told there in 1 Corinthians, quote, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed, for this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. Perhaps the greatest section where it talks about our glorified state is in the end of the book of Revelation, where Revelation 22 2 says, the tree of life there will give fruit every month, quote, for the healing of the nations. So there will be no more death, Revelation 21:4. Therefore, we will be in a state where our bodies are going to be like Jesus' resurrected body. There will be no more strife, no more sickness, no more death, no more wars between nations. He says he's going to dry every tear, and we'll be able to live in a state where our physical bodies are glorified. And Steve, I can't wait for that day.

SPEAKER_00: 35:46

I can't wait for that either. It's going to be a great day whenever our spirit is united with a glorified body and we're freed from the body that we have here that we're living in in this earth. And this glorified body is going to be living in a redeemed creation. And of course, in the end state, we're going to have a new heavens and a new earth. So our glorified body is going to be one that's going to be created to be and exist in that glorified period of time. We see through Jesus that he was the first one, the first prototype of this glorified body that he had. Whenever he came back, we see different characteristics that he had. He also was able to physically eat something. He was cooking fish on the seashore whenever they recognized him by the Sea of Galilee. It also had some physical characteristics in that Thomas and others were able to touch him and to feel of him as well. So this isn't going to be some sort of a ghostly ethereal type of a body. No, it's going to be an actual physical body, albeit that it's going to be glorified and one built to exist in the glorified and eternal state with God, one that's going to be able to be with and stand in the presence of God Himself. It's just going to be a great thing.

SPEAKER_01: 37:18

First Corinthians 15, as we said, talks a lot about this glorified body. It's the same one that was put in the ground, will be raised and glorified. It'll be fixed this time, but it's a very physical body that is glorified. It's the same one we have now. But not only is our body going to be physically glorified, but our position in Christ is going to be glorified and elevated. Revelation 19:9, we are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. Imagine we will be in the king's palace, able to sit at the king's table, eat the king's food. We are in a glorified state. And he says in 1 Corinthians 6, 2, quote, do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And the very next verse says, Do you not know that we will judge angels? So Christians, followers of Jesus Christ that are born again, our bodies are going to be glorified, but we're also going to be elevated into a glorified position of authority and reverence where we can sit at the king's table. So we will have a glorified position. Only those who are born again in Christ will be able to be glorified this way. Further, all of our problems are going to be solved and perfect justice will prevail. It says in Revelation 21:4, quote, He will wipe away every tear from our eyes, and there will no longer be any death. There will no longer be any mourning or crying or pain. The first things have passed away, unquote. So we're told there's no more death. Our glorified bodies will not die again. They will not hurt again. There will be no tears. We're also going to be able to see God face to face in all his glory. Quote, the dwelling of God is among men, and he will dwell among them, it says in Revelation 21:3. Over in 1 Corinthians 13, 12, it says, For we now see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Our bodies are going to be glorified, and as such, we're going to be able to see God directly in all of his glory. We're going to be in a glorified state where we can be with him. If we were to see God's full glory now, it would probably strike us dead. Remember when Christ revealed a little bit of his glory on the Mount of Transfiguration, Peter and James and John had to hide their eyes. So remember, the Bible speaks about salvation of the individual, but that's not the only thing it talks about. It talks about the redemption of people, talks about the redemption of the earth and the redemption of nations. So in the end, the last couple of chapters in Revelation tell us that the earth is to be returned to the state it was in the Garden of Eden. The earth will be returned to its glory that it had in the Garden of Eden. Revelation 22, 3 says, when the earth is renewed, there will be no more curse. The curse will be lifted from the ground, and our bodies will be glorified. The tree of life will be in the new earth, just like it was in the Garden of Eden. And Steve, I can't wait.

SPEAKER_00: 40:39

Think of it this way is that glorification is the completion, the consummation, the perfection, the full realization of our salvation. So in this process, we have justification where we're declared righteous before God. We're given the Holy Spirit, which helps us to be able to live in this world that we have, in this physical body that we currently have, learning more about Jesus Christ and God, becoming more separated from the world itself. And then the glorification, though, is the pinnacle of it. It's a new body that we're given with our spirit reunited with it that is going to be able to stand before God during our judgment. That judgment is not going to be for salvation. That judgment is going to be for our rewards and for the things that we have done here. Every deed's going to be reviewed, but our salvation is one which is secured. So I can't wait for it either, Glenn. The glorified body and glorification, that's where we're going, and that's where we're headed. Paul says that we're not citizens of this world once we become a believer. We're citizens of the heavenly realm once we become believers. And where are we going to live there is going to be in a place that Jesus says he has gone to prepare for us? And the bodies that we're going to have are going to be these glorified bodies. That's where we're headed. This in-between state of sanctification is one that's temporary in itself until we get to the point of a glorified body reunited with our spirit. And as you've pointed many times, I can't wait. It's just going to be a great time that we're going to have.

SPEAKER_01: 42:27

So we opened with this and we'll summarize it here. The three areas that we've been describing today, justification is the deliverance from the penalty of sin when God declares us right before Him. And that's by faith and faith alone. Sanctification is the deliverance from the power of sin, where we can live increasingly holy lives here on earth. And then glorification is the deliverance from the presence of sin when we are finally face to face with God. Oh, what a great day that will be. My friends, I trust that you will also be on this path of justification, sanctification, and glorification as we are. If not, then why not today?

SPEAKER_00: 43:09

So we hope that this has been a help to you. We could have gone through each of these sessions on their own for each of these subjects. So this really can be classified as an overview. We encourage you to continue to read through the scriptures on these particular subject areas and learn them a little bit better. If you happen to have further questions about any of these items, write to us at info at reasoningthrough the Bible.com and we'll work them into one of our QA sessions that we periodically have.

SPEAKER_01: 43:41

Again, hopefully this has been helpful to you. And with that, we trust that you will be back with us as we continue to reason through the Bible.

SPEAKER_00: 43:49

Thank you so much for watching and listening. May God bless you.